Begin Here : Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Revisiting the Childhood	p. 1
To Begin Here	p. 7
The Asian Childhood: Writing Beginnings	p. 32
Cultural Revolutions and Takeovers: War as Structure	p. 66
The Liminal Childhood: Biraciality as Narrative Position	p. 82
Citizens or Denizens: Inscribing the Tropes of Asian North Americanization	p. 110
In North America: Formulating Experience	p. 136
The Childhood for Children: The Cultural Experience of the Early Reader	p. 156
Conclusion: Rewriting the Childhood	p. 183
Notes	p. 187
Works Cited	p. 207
Index	p. 223
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